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Cuban changes bring hope to aging beachfront

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 04:04 PM PST


HAVANA -- Along Havana's northern coastline, storms that roll down from the north send waves crashing against the concrete seawall, drenching vintage cars and kids playing games of chicken with the salty spray.
Fisherman toss their lines into the ...

At 84, pope beginning to show age

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST


VATICAN CITY-- Pope Benedict XVI seems worn out.
People who have spent time with him recently say they found him weaker than they'd ever seen him, seemingly too tired to engage with what they were saying. He no longer meets individually with visit ...

Leon Panetta encourages Libyan leaders to embrace democracy

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST


TRIPOLI, Libya -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said "the torch of freedom" has passed to the Libyan people and he pledged during a historic visit Saturday to Tripoli that the United States will do all it can to help the country move toward d ...

Crackdown on Egypt protest grows more violent

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST


CAIRO -- Troops pulled women across the pavement by their hair, knocking off their Muslim headscarves. Young activists were kicked in the head until they lay motionless in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Unfazed by TV cameras catching every move, Egypt's ...

Floods kill more than 400 Filipinos

Posted: 17 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST


MANILA, Philippines -- Flash floods devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing more than 400 people while they slept, rousting hundreds of others to their rooftops and turning two coastal cities into muddy, deb ...

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